Research Facilities

Departmental Instruments
Bruker 500 MHz NMR with cryoprobe
Bruker 400 MHz NMR with autotuning multinuclear probe Bruker 300 MHz NMR with 60-sample autochanger Bruker 200D EPR with new console
Bruker BioFlex IV Maldi-TOF Mass Spectrometer
VG Trio2 quadrople Mass Spec with EI/CI/FAB
HP 5971 GC/MS
Bruker AXS CCD X-Ray diffractometer
Varian SpectraAA Atomic Absorption Spectrometer
Perkin Elmer FTIR 2000 with MCT detector
Perkin Elmer Paragon 1000 FTIR
Perkin Elmer Lambda 900 UV/Vis spectrophotometer
Shimadzu UVPC spectrophotometer with temperature controller
SPEX Fluoromax fluorescence spectrometer
Philips XL30 Environmental Scanning
Electron Microscope-FEG
Philips EM300 Transmission Electron Microscope

Individual Research Lab Instruments
Chemat Technology KW-4A spin coater
CH Instruments 610A electrochemical analyzer
Atomic Force Microscope
nanoSurf AG easyScan scanning tunneling microscope
Spectral Energy Corporation LH150 illumination system Varian Cary 100 Bio absorption spectrometer
Varian Cary Eclipse emission spectrometer
Varian ProStar 210 HPLC system

Scanning Electrochemical Microscope
Perkin Elmer FTIR 2000 with Microscope
Edinburgh Instruments FS920 Steady State Fluorimeter
Edinburgh Instruments FL920 Fluorescence Lifetime Spectrometer
HP 5890 and 6890 Gas Chromatographs
Rainin High Pressure Liquid Chromatographs
Shimadzu 2101PC UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
Photochemical irradiataion sources
Amersham Biosciences AKTA basic FPLC system with fraction collector
Amersham Biosciences AKTA basic HPLC system with fraction collector
Beckman DU640 spectrophotometer with kinetics software package
Kintek model RQF-3 chemical-quench-flow apparatus
MWG Primus 25 "hot-lid" PCR
Owl horizontal, large-vertical, and mini-vertical gel electrophoresis apparatuses
Forma model 480 refrigerated console incubator orbital shaker
Beckman Allegra-21R benchtop refrigerated centrifuge
Forma model 983 -80 C upright freezer
Spex-Fluorolog Spectrofluorimeter (Horiba Jobin Yvon)
S2000-FL minispectrofluorimeter (for optical fiber fluorescence measurements, OceanOptics)
Epifluorescence Microscope ( Olympus)
Modulated Fluorescence Set-up (laboratory built)
Langmuir troughs (6, one KSV and 5 Kibron Inc.)
Langmuir-Blodgett troughs for film deposition (2, one home-built and one Kibron Inc.)
UV-Vis diode array spectrophotometer (Hewlett-Packard)
IElli2000 Imaging Ellipsometer (Nanofilm)
Bruker FT-IR spectrophotometer (Equinox55) with accessories for ATR and variable angle reflection FT-IR and reflection-absorption IR (IRRAS) directly at the air-water interface
Circular Dichroism Spectrophotometer (Jasco model J-810)
Beckman L7-8- Ultracentrifuge
Pico Scanning Probe Microscope (Digital Instruments)
Hansatech O 2 Electrode
HPLC (Waters with Millenium32 software package)
Brewster Angle Microscope ( Nippon system)